Police Court
ON Saturday morning, at the Police Court, Erskine Chadwick, aged 76, who had been locked up for protection suffering from the effects of drink, was…
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Courts & crime, 1881
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Charge of Murder
MURRUMBURRAH, Thursday.—With reference to the late murder near here of a man named Bradford, his wife and son have been arrested, and after an…
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ONE drunkard was dealt with at the Police Court yesterday morning. Michael Cummins, charged with neglecting to pay his fare from Sydney by the steamer…
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THE sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court will commence to-morrow (Thursday), at East Maitland, before Mr. Justice Windeyer. The following is a list of the…
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YESTERDAY at noon was the hour named for the annual licensing of publicans for the Newcastle district, and a goodly number of applications had been lodged. The…
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AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., there were only a few cases on the sheets. Margaret, Annie, Violet, and John Henry McDonald, the…
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MR. BUCHANAN, P.M., disposed of the police business yesterday. Richard Crowe was fined 5s, in default 24 hours, for drunkenness, and 20s, or seven days, for…
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THE sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court opened yesterday at the Court House, East Maitland, before his Honour Judge Windeyer. Mr. Rogers acted as Crown…
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WE learn by telegram in Thursday's S. M. Herald that a man named Evison has been committed for trial at Bega, Twofold Bay, for a violent assault on his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, April 22, 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)
COMMITTAL.—Frank Brinkhoff, on remand, was committed for trial at the ensuing Maitland Circuit Court, for inflecting grievous bodily harm upon Richard…
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THE report of to-day's proceedings is unavoidably held over…
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A BATCH of inebriates was disposed of at the Police Court on Saturday by Mr. Buchanan, P.M. Several fresh offenders were mulct in the customary sums…
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MURRUMBURRAH, April 20.—The close of the first part of one of the most diabolical murders over perpetrated in New South Wales, took place at the…
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THE following sentences were recorded by Judge Windeyer at the Maitland Circuit Court, on Friday:—Joseph Walton, horse stealing, three years' hard labour; James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, 25Th April, 1881. (Before Mr. Buchanan, P.M.)
DRUNKENNESS.—One offender under this section was dealt with. STEAING PIGEONS.—Axel Nelson, a mere child, was charged with having stolen a…
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THE usual hearing of the Small Debts Court took place yesterday morning, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M. There were only three or four cases set down, none of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, 26Th April, 1881. (Before the P.M., and Messrs. Lochhead, O'Sullivan, Brooks, and Bolton.)
Three "drunks" were fined a crown apiece, one of the trio being further mulot in the sum of 10s for indulging in profane language in Market-street…
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AT the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday, before his Honor Judge Windeyer and a jury of four, the following highly important local case on the civil case was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, 27Th April, 1881. (Before the P.M., and Mr. Lochhead, J.P.)
WM. BURNS, drunk and disorderly in Scott-street, was fined 5s or twenty-four hours. Richard Sheldon, riotous behaviour in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, April 27, 1881. Fleming V. Newcastle Borough Council
THE Maitland Circuit Court resumed its sittings yesterday, before his Honour Judge Windeyer, when the adjourned case—Fleming v. Newcastle Borough Council—…
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